PhpStorm 9.0.0 Help

Hierarchy Tool Window

View | Tool Windows | HierarchyAlt+8

Use this tool window to analyze and navigate through hierarchies of classes .

The tool window is available only after you have
built a hierarchy for the first time.

The contents of the tool window are not automatically updated as you navigate through the source code or switch between
editor tabs. The tool window shows the results of the latest hierarchy command and is updated
when you run the next hierarchy command, unless the tab with one of the previously built hierarchies is
pinned.

Toolbar buttons

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When this button is pressed, the hierarchical tree shows both the parent and child classes of
the selected class, which is marked with an arrow
in the tree of results.

Class hierarchies

Depending on the hierarchy type:

For class hierarchies -
when this button is pressed, the tool window shows all classes
that extend the selected class.

For call hierarchies - when this button is pressed, the tool window shows
the callees of the selected method.

Class hierarchies
Call hierarchies

Depending on the hierarchy type:

For class hierarchies -
when this button is pressed, the tool window shows the
hierarchy of each supertype of the current class.

For call hierarchies - when this button is pressed, the tool window shows the
callers of the selected method.

Class hierarchies
Call hierarchies

When this button is pressed, the elements within a tree are sorted alphabetically.

All hierarchies

Scope

Use this drop-down list to limit the scope of the current hierarchy:

Project - PhpStorm traces usages of the method across the project.

Test - PhpStorm traces usages of the method across the test classes.

All - PhpStorm traces usages of the method across the project and the libraries.

This class - the scope is limited to the current class.

In addition to the pre-configured scopes, you can define your own one: select Configure from the drop-down list,
and define the required scope in the Scopes dialog box that opens.

Call hierarchies

In a method hierarchy, the tree-views of the following classes are available:

- where this method is defined.

- where this method is not defined, but defined in the superclass.

- where this method should be defined, because the class is not abstract.

If you made any changes of the classes or the class structure, they become visible in the
Hierarchy tool window only after you press this button.

All hierarchies

Toggle the Autoscroll to source mode. When the button is pressed, every time the node is focused,
the corresponding line of source code is highlighted in the editor.

All hierarchies

When this button is pressed, the current tab will not be overwritten;
instead, the results of the next command will be displayed in a new tab.